Jeff Beck arrived at a time when all the rules were being questioned.  Unlike many of his contemporaries (and many in his audience), he never lost the sense of discovery in his music.  Put an instrumental band together and get it played on the radio?  Sure, why not?  Collaborate with Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner?  I'll try that!  Introduce a whole new audience to the music of Charles Mingus? That's for me.   And it never sounded stale or contrived or like the work of anyone else.  Always, organically, Jeff Beck; his fans loved him for it.  

 

Jeff Beck, seemingly the eternally enthusiastic youngster, died this past January and a violent shockwave tore through the music community.  No one was ready for him to go and so much felt unfinished.

 

This Monday from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org, guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Jeff Beck, with special attention to live recordings from the WKCR archives of his vibrant Seventies improvisations.  

 

Next week it goes up at the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

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Photo credit: Jeff_Beck 1973 by Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0